Un-Wordless Wednesday Vol. 1

Disclaimer #1:

No judging my whole entire life for long it took for me to get this posted...okay?

Thank You.

Lunch with the B-Boys & the Parental @ CPK

Del Rey Lagoon Park, Marina Del Rey, Cali

Glow Girls Beach Trip, Santa Monica, Cali

Disclaimer #2:
No judging for using WORDS in my WORDLESS Wednesday Posts...
Thanks, again.

*Things I was thankful for on Saturday 

*Hubby going to infinity and beyond as he bought AND prepped breakfast for my sorority meeting at the house

*Glow Girl's Creed

*Thee BEST ever: Mary Kay

*How my BeYouTiFul face looked after using Thee BEST Ever: 

Mary Kay

*ONE of the singing groups my Hubby belongs to: 

Redeemed & Blessed

*My lil' brotha from another motha (same heavenly daddy, though)...lookin' like he 'bout to teach some salsa dancing lessons...but we're at church...LOL!...

Get It, Isaiah!!

Know Who YOU Are

Happy BeYouTiFul Tuesday, Blessings!!

You are beautiful. 

You are enough. 

You have purpose.

[Source]

This is an excerpt from DARLING. Its an online mag I came across a few days ago and its AMAZEballs for several reasons.  Its an online magazine, soon to be in print (SUPER STOKED) that's challenging the ideals of your normal young women's fashion/lifestyle/pop-culture magazine.  Darling is good place to start to redefine your mindset of what beauty really is and  to start addressing some those mind boggling questions you may have that you seem to keep to your self or that NO ONE EVER quite has the "right" answers for...

What are you waiting on...Go on over and check these Divas out. Then come back and tell me what you think...

I'm the Dreamer and Intellectual...

Don't know what I'm talkin' 'bout?

Well, you shoulda went over there by now...

Which one are you and why?

Now go, already...

Getcha Mind Right. . .

Just read some pretty powerful stuff from The Daily Love...A mind truly is a powerful thing...what are you choosing to believe or NOT believe about yourself? 

A goal is dead...NOTHING...if you haven't made up in your mind that you're worth the results of the goal and that you have the will, determination, and self-discipline to fulfill it.

Then you actually HAVE TO SO SOMETHING...yes...some actual WORK and CONSISTENTLY...to see any fruit from your faith in your goal.

Here are the two thoughts that JUMPED ALL IN MY FACE:

1. Faith first, mindset second, goals third, action fourth, persistence always.

 -Mastin Kipp @The Daily Love

2.  Today's Affirmations:

I tell a new story about what's possible.

I surround myself with people who believe in my dreams.

My dreams are real, my doubts are not.

Wonderfully Made

He tells me that I am "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made"...but how much of that do I truly believe?...I've been going through a lot of tomfoolery (you'll see that I use this word way too much) this past year and it's led to stress and worrying; not leaning and relying on God to see me through and it's been taking a physical, mental, and emotional toll on me...no bueno. 

But God is a GREAT God and he knows EXACTLY what he's doing in our lives...we just have to trust and believe that he knows what's best...

'Christine, even if that means going through it right now in my marriage?'

...Yes, even if it means troubling times in my marriage, Christine, God still knows this is what I need to go through right now...(whomp whomp =/ )

Through these ever-much-so trying times, I've been reading two particular blogs: The Daily Love (whoot whoot!!) and Proverbs 31 Ministries, along with a few new Twitter Accounts that I'm following now, and I've been noticing a re-occurring theme from the content of each of their postings: Self Love and Acceptance.

I began thinking, 'Do I really care for and love myself the way I thought I did?'

I've been so into my family and my husband and my mess, that I may be neglecting myself and not even knowing it...You know, we as women, invest and sacrifice all that we are and have for our families that we tend to forget ourselves...and any thought of taking care "me" would be just darn right selfish, right?!?...but I'm beginning to realize that I have to take care of me, and know and believe that its not being selfish...but its the self love and acceptance for myself that I've been lacking.

Now, through my trials, I'm learning not to be worrisome and stressed (have I mastered it, GREAT SCOTT, NO!...but I'm learning), and to rely on God, for he knows I need to learn something from these circumstances and he's building me up into the DORK (Daughter Of The Righteous King) he has created me to be (which is one of my requests I've been recently praying for anywhoo...). 

I'm also learning not focus on the problems before me and to focus on the results or the outcome...focus on the lesson to be learned...on the person that I will have grown into due to my endurance, patience, and faith during my tomfoolery...

...and that is what I am CHOOSING to do.

*Pink Hugs & Blessings*